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The document discusses design computing, which refers to the study and practice of computational design activities. It notes that early groups to use the term include the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney, which has pioneered research in this area for nearly 50 years. While terms like computational design are sometimes used interchangeably, design computing specifically aims to bridge design and computation to increase understanding of the design process. It also establishes the University of Sydney's Bachelor of Design Computing as a leading program in this field.

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The document discusses design computing, which refers to the study and practice of computational design activities. It notes that early groups to use the term include the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney, which has pioneered research in this area for nearly 50 years. While terms like computational design are sometimes used interchangeably, design computing specifically aims to bridge design and computation to increase understanding of the design process. It also establishes the University of Sydney's Bachelor of Design Computing as a leading program in this field.

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The terms 

design computing and other relevant terms including design and


computation and computational design refer to the study and practice of design activities through
the application and development of novel ideas and techniques in computing. One of the early
groups to coin this term was the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of
Sydney in Australia, which for nearly fifty years (late 1960s to today) pioneered the research,
teaching, and consulting of design and computational technologies. This group organised the
academic conference series "Artificial Intelligence in Design (AID)"[1] published by Springer during
that period. AID was later renamed "Design Computing and Cognition (DCC)" [2] and is currently a
leading biannual conference in the field. Other notable groups in this area are the Design and
Computation[3] group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's School of Architecture + Planning
and the Computational Design[4] group at Georgia Tech.
Whilst these terms share in general an interest in computational technologies and design activity,
there are important differences in the various approaches, theories, and applications. For example,
while in some circles the term "computational design" refers in general to the creation of new
computational tools and methods in the context of computational thinking,[5] design computing is
concerned with bridging these two fields in order to build an increased understanding of design. [6]
The Bachelor of Design Computing (BDesComp)[7] was created in 2003 at the University of
Sydney and continues to be a leading programme in interaction design and creative technologies,
now hosted by the Design Lab. In that context, design computing is defined to be the use and
development of computational models of design processes and digital media to assist and/or
automate various aspects of the design process with the goal of producing higher quality and new
design forms.[8]

Contents

 1Areas
 2Research groups
 3Conferences
 4References
 5External links

Areas[edit]
In recent years a number of research and education areas have been grouped under the umbrella
term "Design Computing", namely:

 Artificial Intelligence in Design


 Artificial Architecture
 Expert and Knowledge-based Systems
 Computational creativity
 Computer-Aided Design
 Responsive computer-aided design
 Digital morphogenesis
 Visual and Spatial Modelling
 Computational Analogy
 Automated Design Systems
 Design Support Systems
 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
 Building Information Modeling (BIM)
 Extended Reality (XR) and Hybrid Space[9]
 Digital Place-making[10]

Research groups[edit]
The main research groups working in this area span from Faculties of Architecture, Engineering and
Computer Science. Australia has been a pioneer in this area. For the last five decades the Key
Centre of Design Computing and Cognition (KCDC), currently known as the Design Lab, at
the University of Sydney has been active in establishing this area of research and teaching.
The University of Sydney offers a Bachelor of Design Computing ([1]) and the University of New
South Wales also in Sydney a Bachelor of Computational Design ([2]). In the US this research area
is also known as "Design and Computation", namely at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT). Other relevant research groups include:

 Critical Research in Digital Architecture (CRIDA), Faculty of Architecture, Building and


Planning, University of Melbourne
 School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon
 Department of Computer Science, University College London
 Department of Informatics Engineering, Universidade de Coimbra
 Department of Computer Science, Vrije University, Amsterdam
 Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology Sydney
 Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
 Department of Architecture, Tokyo Institute of Technology
 Department of Architecture, MIT
 Department of Computer Science, Helsinki University of Technology
 College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology
 Design Machine Group, University of Washington College of Built Environments, Seattle
 Design Computing Program, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture
 School of Interactive Arts + Technology, Simon Fraser University
 Department of Architecture, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
 Institute of Computational Design, University of Stuttgart
 Architectural Design Computing, Istanbul Technical University
 Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
 Centre of IT and Architecture (CITA), The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
Copenhagen
 Institute of Architectural Algorithms & Applications (Inst.AAA), Southeast University,
Nanjing
 Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction, University of Kassel,
Germany
 Computational Media Design (CMD) program, University of Calgary, Canada
 School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism (FEC-Unicamp), University of
Campinas, Brazil

Conferences[edit]
The biannual International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC) brings together
high quality research on this area, as do annual conferences by the Association for Computer Aided
Design In Architecture and others.

References[edit]
1. ^ Artificial Intelligence in Design ’92 | John S. Gero | Springer.
2. ^ Gero, John. "Eighth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition DCC'18
or DCC18". dccconferences.org. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
3. ^ architecture.mit.edu/computation/program/overview
4. ^ "Computational Design | School of Architecture | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta,
GA". arch.gatech.edu. Retrieved  2017-11-13.
5. ^ "Ubiquity: Computational design".  ubiquity.acm.org. Retrieved  2017-11-13.
6. ^ Design Computing and Cognition '14 | John S. Gero | Springer.
7. ^ "Bachelor of Design Computing". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 18 April  2018.
8. ^ "Faculty of Architecture Handbook 2004"  (PDF).  University of Sydney Library. Retrieved 11
November 2017.
9. ^ Zellner, Peter (1999).  Hybrid space  : new forms in digital architecture. London: Thames &
Hudson.  ISBN  0500341737.
10. ^ Hespanhol, Luke; Haeusler, Hank; Tomitsch, Martin; Tscherteu, Gernot (2017). Media
architecture compendium  : digital placemaking. Stuttgart, Germany:
Avedition.  ISBN  9783899862515.

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